I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness.

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

Action is movement with intelligence

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.